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Murder most modern : detective fiction and Japanese culture /

The quintessential international genre, detective fiction often works under the guise of popular entertainment to expose its extensive readership to complex moral questions and timely ethical dilemmas. The first book-length study of interear Japanese detective fiction, Murder Most Modern considers t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kawana, Sari
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Detective Fiction, Diphtheria, and Modernity
  • Tailing the Tail: How to Turn Paranoia into a Hobby
  • Eyeing the Privates: Sexuality as Motive
  • Mad Scientists and Their Prey: Bioethics and Murder
  • Drafted Detectives and Total War: Three Editors of Shupio
  • The Disfigured National Body: Unmasking Modernity in Postwar Mysteries
  • Epilogue: Beyond the Whodunit.